353343 - Take a single account offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312619

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Huston]

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Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 (20060909)

A feature that I would love to see is the ability to take only certain accounts offline, instead of all or none.  For example, while on vacation I don't want to see my work email, but still use Thunderbird to read my home email and other accounts.  I don't see a way to take a single account (or multiple accounts) offline while leaving others connected and checking for new mail.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

You can disable the mail-retrieval of Thunderbird, account per account. See account settings, server settings. Offline is used for network connections, so that you can read mail without being bombarded with error messages if no network connection is found.

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Comment 2

[Steve Huston]

Thanks for the reply, though I don't appreciate the "not a support forum" part of this reply, as I did search the knowledge base and forums and found no such information about turning off mail checking for a single account.  The "solution" does not solve the issue of only one mail server being offline - by being able to take that one account offline, you can still read the other account's mail and not get bombarded with error messages as you stated.  Especially if one uses offline mode and has copies of the down server's messages locally, you could still read the mails downloaded and such as you'd do with offline mode for that one account.  This isn't a support request or a "helpme", it's a RFE.

Comment 3

[Steve Huston]

I also notice that turning off checking of new mail doesn't seem to make a difference if the IMAP server supports the IDLE command - I was still informed of new messages arriving in my inbox, even after restarting Thunderbird.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #3)
> turning off checking of new mail doesn't seem to make a difference if the IMAP
> server supports the IDLE command - I was still informed of new messages
> arriving in my inbox, even after restarting Thunderbird.

If you don't need function by IDLE when online too, you can disable use of IDLE thru Server Settings/Advanced by un-checking "Use IDLE command if server supports it".